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evdubs

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    Comment #48988199

    It has worked flawlessly for me on Linux.

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    Comment #48766610

    Laborer rebels against capitalist system by directly enjoying the fruits of his own labor.

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    Comment #48755464

    You don't need to use an online service to do this; you get to avoid spending money on tokens doing it offline. Gemma 4 works perfectly well offline on limited hardware (I have an …

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    Comment #48667166

    > It's not better than `[1, 2, 3]` is it? If you want to change your vector to a linked list, in Lisp, you can change from `(vector 1 2 3)` to `(list 1 2 3)`. If you have some arra…

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    Comment #48664283

    > `(== a b)` is clearly worse than `a == b` It's clearly worse just because it moved from infix to prefix and is wrapped by parens? Is `(* (+ a b) (+ c d))` clearly worse than `(a …

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    Comment #48596079

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48574354

    I hope 99% of that was documentation and testing.

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    Comment #48532385

    I am pretty sure Racket's `stream` will handle this use case. https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/streams.html

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    Comment #48530234

    Threading macros are nice, though, right? https://docs.racket-lang.org/threading/introduction.html

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    Comment #48507481

    The cool thing about Dolt is that you [eventually] get the features of the databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB) they emulate, so you can have your PG 19 temporality featu…

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    Comment #48507383

    > Recently, a new type of question has entered the database arena: what did this data look like last Tuesday? This question has been answerable in Dolt for years now.

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    Comment #48417445

    I tried to see if an LLM service provider could rewrite some legal docs where nothing was hallucinated in order to follow a consistent format to see what may be missing in the docu…

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    Comment #48395524

    > I would emphasize the importance of batching and set operations. Please, preach your gospel more loudly and frequently. It always feels like people complain about RDBMSs being sl…

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    Comment #48372787

    S-expressions. Defining data in JSON or XML is way worse than S-expressions.

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    Comment #48367279

    How much faster? How much cleaner? What tasks are you accomplishing?

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    Comment #48333080

    Wow, what an apples and aliens comparison. You add a bunch of transaction delays to your postgresql case because you can access a database over a network, but you use transaction b…

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    Comment #48327682

    > What’s an example of a unionized vs non unionized group producing the same thing where unionized is better? Here's a layup: art. Remember the writer's union strike in 2007-2008? …

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    Comment #48327645

    Is it so difficult to say, "You're right. I'm wrong. There are actually unions for autoworkers in both China and Japan." ?

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    Comment #48264615

    If you're referring to C# (and Java) being the Kingdom of Nouns where a type like ArrayList is defined and contains its methods, sure, Lisp is not exactly like that, but I feel lik…

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    Comment #48262845

    Assuming your comment applies to Common Lisp as well, if Scheme (and Lisp) truly was, "hard to read, unfit for most purposes and that even proficient coders never seem to fully gra…

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    Comment #48262793

    > types don’t have their core functions associated with them concretely. They do in Racket? You look at the "List" documentation and you find all of the functions for lists. Likewi…

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    Comment #48196664

    > Widespread supply chain attacks. This is a bad thing.

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    Comment #48144631

    What's the likelihood that universities eventually become open model providers?

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    Comment #48127427

    > would be the worst geopolitical move of the century From a political perspective, perhaps. > doing it forcefully just isn't something China would realistically do From a military…

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    Comment #48068368

    Their valuation is crazy. Trading at $260, with no profit, their price:sales ratio was 36x (extremely high). Now, trading at $195, their price:forward earnings ratio is 130x (extre…